So, what comes into your brain when I say Disney World??? Castle, princesses, Florida, long plane rides…..all of the above? Yes we will be doing all of those. And more. I am not exactly sure everything that we will be doing on the trip right now, but here is what I know. First, we will [Read More…]
So the New Year has come and the guessed about date of Amelia’s wish trip is coming. Last week we got a flyer in the mail saying that there would be a party with and for all of the Princesses in Make A Wish Land. Of course Amelia wanted to go right away. I had [Read More…]
Christmas at our house has always been a big deal. This year we got to experience some Christmas magic Make-A-Wish style. One of the local radio stations, KBER 101 to be exact, sponsored a ride to the “North Pole” on the Polar Express for the Make A Wish kids and their families. Of course we [Read More…]
Halloween time came with Amelia in the hospital again. This time it was only for a couple of days because she had a high fever. Again. The only problem that she could see was that she would not be able to attend the Make A Wish Halloween party. She was fine missing the Boo At [Read More…]
20 oct The appointment was set for October 20. The whole family was invited to the Make-A Wish tower to have Amelia formally declare her wish to the Wish Wizard. We were the only ones there besides the 2 ladies that would be working on Amelia’s wish. We entered the front door and there was [Read More…]
Little did we know back in 2007 that we would be the recipients of a Make-A-Wish. We found out Amelia was in kidney failure and was permanently in ESRD or End Stage Renal Disease, needing a transplant and extended dialysis. A few days into dialysis, and during the process to figure out what was going [Read More…]
Hello to all who read this page! This site is dedicated to Amelia Rose Matthews. It exists after 16 weeks in the hospital, 2 years of dialysis and a kidney transplant, not to mention countless clinic visits, blood draws and tests. We are now letting Amelia live her life, and be as normal a 5 [Read More…]